MOVIE | Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy Australian premiere – Sydney has fallen madly in love again with Renée Zellweger at the Australian Premiere of her latest film at Hoyts EQ tonight (Sunday, February 9).
The two-time Academy Award® winner is back Down Under, this time joined by the director and cast of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leo Woodall, Sally Phillips and director Michael Morris were in town to celebrate the fourth and final chapter in the blockbuster rom-com series.
It’s been almost 10 years since we last heard from the woman whose inimitable approach to life and love redefined an entire film genre, with Australian audiences clearly excited for Bridget’s return – just as she is.
Sydney’s glitterati walked the purple carpet and enjoyed Singleton and Smug Married cocktails before being amongst the first in Australia to see Bridget’s latest chapter.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy will be released in Australian cinemas on February 13, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
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About the Film
Bridget Jones first blasted onto bookshelves in Helen Fielding’s literary phenomenon Bridget Jones’s Diary, which became a global bestseller and a blockbuster film. As a single career woman living in London, Bridget Jones not only introduced the world to her romantic adventures, but added “Singletons,” “Smug-Marrieds” and “f—wittage” into the global lexicon. Bridget’s ability to triumph despite adversity led her to finally marry top lawyer Mark Darcy and to become the mother of their baby boy. Happiness at last.
But in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark was killed on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan. She’s now a single mother to 10-year-old Billy and six-year-old Mabel, and is stuck in a state of emotional limbo, raising her children with help from her loyal friends and even her former lover, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant).
Pressured by her Urban Family — Shazzer, Jude and Tom, her work colleague Miranda, her mother, and her gynecologist Dr. Rawlings (Oscar® winner Emma Thompson) — to forge a new path toward life and love, Bridget goes back to work and even tries out the dating apps, where she’s soon pursued by a dreamy and enthusiastic younger man (Woodall). Now juggling work, home and romance, Bridget grapples with the judgment of the perfect mums at school, worries about Billy as he struggles with the absence of his father, and engages in a series of awkward interactions with her son’s rational-to-a-fault science teacher (Ejiofor).
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is directed by Michael Morris (To Leslie, Better Call Saul), from a screenplay by BAFTA nominee Helen Fielding, based on her novel, with contributions from Emmy winner Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady, Eric) and Oscar® nominee Dan Mazer (I Give it A Year, Bridget Jones’s Baby).
The three previous Bridget Jones films — Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) and Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016) — have earned more than $800 million worldwide.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy – in cinemas 13 February, 2025
Media Release – Universal Pictures
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MOVIE | Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy Australian premiere
